Things are definitely going to be different this time you guys, just one more election, if we build up lots of socialist electoral power they aren't going to just arrest and execute all the leftwingers like they have all over the world countless times since 1917, that can't happen here because this place is special.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

since 1917

This is Paris Commune erasure

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

and 1848 revolution erasure

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We know the history. Nonetheless, the only way out is through.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Through elections?

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Democracy grows through a barrel or something...

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Scattered sects and armed individuals are weak no matter their weapons.

Power comes from organized masses who are able and willing to use force.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Donkey Kong Country: USA

[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Alongside other avenues like labor organizing, tenant work and mutual aid.

Elections are part of building class counciousness and showing the limits of the bourgeois state. The backlash to DSA's (frankly moderate) success is part of that.

If you want a revolutionary base to be organized, this is part of the route to that, even if it will get ugly and is full of contradictions

[–] Radical_Socialist_t00t@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Meh, you can't stop trying either.